All my quilts are JR approved

I did put this quilt on the floor to entice our orange cat to pose on it..he loves quilts...but our Jack Russell Jazz decided to pose for me instead:> This is one of the tops that i have been quilting like a maniac...made it 6 years ago with my BBF right before she died..we each made one...she would love Jazz sitting on mine...I quilted her top for her sister long ago but just got around to quilting mine...quilted with gold metallic Japanese thread that i got at Quilt Expo last year...lovely stuff that popped only a couple of times as I madly quilted this one...I think it turned out great....
This pattern was in some quilt magazine at the time...we fussy cut a ton of oriental prints from my collection that i have picked up over the years at quilt shows.....I dont think i really liked this top till i added the wonderful Kona Bay print on the edge...and that salmon orange sparkle border...it languished for years in a drawer with just the black border even though i had bought the Kona Bay print for it long ago...

As to my quilting...loving using a long arm...its all unmarked...and i think of it as sketching or drawing on the quilt...its not a precise kind of quilting but rather has the hand of the "artist" in it...my quilting is not like your quilting....I think this is my tenth or twelfth quilt on a long arm...I do one for Kathy at Quiltshop on the Corner than i do one of mine...still have a half dozen or so tops to do...

the first butterfly...kinda simple

one of my later butterflies-I McTavished the lines in the wings...well maybe i Mccarthied them: since i have been doing those lines a long time on my regular machine...

I improved as i went...my butterflies got better...maple leaves i could do from the start and those five petal flowers a piece of cake...butterflies and insects continue to elude me...though i can do them with my eyes closed on my Janome 6500...all kinds of bugs...ants centipedes dragon flies and butterflies to name a few...


so i quilted this beauty to death with things like butterflies and ALOT of maple leaves and some flowers all inspired by the oriental prints...and ribbons...i love ribbons...such great space fillers...

A flower

the yummy borders with maple leaves and ribbons quilted on it

oriental ladies grace the back

maple leaves all over

the corner with one of my teeny nonpiped edgings with the binding